躼

See also: 軂

躼 U+8EBC, 躼 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8EBC ← 躻 [U+8EBB] CJK Unified Ideographs 躽 → [U+8EBD]

Translingual

Han character

躼 (Kangxi radical 158, 身+8, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹竹尸一女 (HHSMV), composition ⿰身長)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1237, character 58
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 6, page 3811, character 8
• Unihan data for U+8EBC

Chinese

trad.		躼
simp.		𲄚
alternative forms		軂／𬧤 䠷 rare 髝 rare 𨱵 rare 𨲮 rare 軂／𬧤 䠷 rare 髝 rare 𨱵 rare 𨲮 rare 𠈭 rare 菿 rare 𡰌 rare 㢃 rare

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 身 (“body”) + 長 (“long”)

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lào (lao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄠˋ

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lò / liò

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lào
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lào
    • Wade–Giles: lao⁴
    • Yale: làu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: law
    • Palladius: лао (lao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Tong'an, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Tainan, Lukang, Sanxia, Yilan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lò
    • Tâi-lô: lò
    • Phofsit Daibuun: loix
    • IPA (Tong'an): /lo¹¹²/
    • IPA (Lukang): /lo³¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Yilan): /lo²¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung, Tainan): /lɤ²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /lo¹¹/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Lukang, Singapore, Philippines)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: liò
    • Tâi-lô: liò
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lioix
    • IPA (Lukang): /lio³¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou, Philippines): /lio⁴¹/
    • IPA (Singapore): /lio²¹/

Definitions

躼

1. (Southern Min, of a person) tall

Synonyms

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		高
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	高
	Taiwan	高
	Malaysia	高
	Singapore	高
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	高
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	高
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	高
	Wuhan	高, 長 †
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	高
	Hefei	高
Cantonese	Guangzhou	高
	Hong Kong	高
	Taishan	高
	Yangjiang	高
	Singapore (Guangfu)	高
Gan	Nanchang	高, 猛 †
Hakka	Meixian	高
	Changting	高
	Wuping	高
	Liancheng	高
	Ninghua	高
Jin	Taiyuan	高
Northern Min	Jian'ou	高
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	懸
	Fuzhou (Changle)	懸
	Fuqing	懸
	Pingtan	懸
	Yongtai	懸
	Gutian	懸
	Fu'an	懸
	Ningde	懸
	Shouning	懸
	Zhouning	懸
	Matsu	懸
Southern Min	Xiamen	懸, 躼 †
	Quanzhou	懸, 躼 †
	Zhangzhou	懸, 躼 †
	Zhao'an	懸
	Taipei	懸, 躼 †
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	懸, 躼 †
	Kaohsiung	懸, 躼 †
	Yilan	懸, 躼 †
	Changhua (Lukang)	懸, 躼 †
	Taichung	懸
	Tainan	懸, 躼 †
	Hsinchu	懸
	Kinmen	懸
	Penghu (Magong)	懸
	Penang (Hokkien)	懸
	Singapore (Hokkien)	懸, 躼 †
	Manila (Hokkien)	懸, 躼 †
	Chaozhou	懸
	Shantou	懸
	Singapore (Teochew)	懸
	Wenchang	懸
	Qionghai	懸
	Singapore (Hainanese)	懸
Puxian Min	Putian	懸
	Xianyou	懸
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi)	懸
Wu	Shanghai	高, 長 †
	Suzhou	高, 長 †
	Hangzhou (Yuhang)	長, 高
	Wenzhou	高, 長 †
Xiang	Changsha	高, 上
	Shuangfeng	高, 長 †
Note	† - of a person's height

Dialectal synonyms of 高 (“tall; high”) [map]

Compounds

• 抽躼 / 抽𲄚
• 㾪躼 / 㾪𲄚
• 躼跤 / 𲄚跤
• 躼跤仔 / 𲄚跤仔
• 躼躼長 / 𲄚𲄚长
• 長躼埽 / 长𲄚埽
• 長躼躼 / 长𲄚𲄚

References

• “躼”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
• 劉建仁 (2011 September 13) “軂（loʟ）──（身材）高長、高挑”, in 台灣話的語源與理據 (in Chinese), retrieved 2015-10-24